Catalan speakers' perception of word stress in unaccented contexts

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 127, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 462-471

  Ortega Llebaria, Marta ^a   Del Mar Vanrell, Maria ^b   Prieto, Pilar ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^c INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATALANS; CUMULATIVE EVIDENCE; FORMANT FREQUENCY; ONE DIMENSION; PITCH ACCENTS; REDUCTION PATTERN; STRESS PERCEPTION;

NATURAL FREQUENCIES;

LINGUISTICS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; PHONETICS; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME;

ADULT; CUES; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LOGISTIC MODELS; PHONETICS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 75949110127     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3268506     Document Type: Article

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